Sex fiend who murdered teen girl busted for groping woman in NY park while out on parole, sparking outrage: ‘Disgraceful’

A paroled sex fiend who killed a teenage girl in Rockland County was busted again this month for allegedly groping a woman — leading incensed lawmakers to blast the state board that freed him.

Robert McCain clinched his release from the state Parole Board on his 10th attempt in 2021 after serving four decades behind bars in the grisly 1980 stabbing of 16-year-old Paula Bohovesky.

But the 64-year-old convicted murderer couldn’t stay out of trouble.

Paroled sex fiend Robert McCain, 64, who killed a teenage girl in Rockland County, was busted again this month for allegedly groping a woman. Martin Raab – stock.adobe.com

He was arrested for allegedly fondling a woman as the two were chatting in an upper Westchester County dog park on July 5.

“This disgraceful and utterly predictable incident highlights precisely why Robert McCain never should have been granted parole,” Republican Rep. Mike Lawler said in a statement.

“As an Assemblyman, I led the charge against Robert’s release, demanding the Parole Board keep this hardened criminal behind bars, but they tragically prioritized pro-criminal ideology over the safety of our community,” the Hudson Valley congressman said.

“The entire Parole Board should resign in disgrace immediately – their constant release of child rapists, cop-killers, and the worst criminals has made New York less safe.”

McCain was hit with a misdemeanor charge of forcible touching and was being held at the Westchester County jail on $25,000 bail, authorities said Friday.

The victim, a “casual acquaintance” of McCain, told cops he groped her at the park in Cortlandt — the town where the jailbird now resides, the Westchester County Department of Public Safety said.

State prison officials said a Department of Corrections and Community Supervision warrant was issued against McCain and lodged with the Westchester jail, where he will remain until a parole revocation hearing.

McCain and co-defendant Richard LaBarbera were convicted of murder in 1981 for Bohovesky’s slaying and each hit with the maximum prison term of 25 years to life.

McCain served 40 years behind bars for the fatal stabbing of 16-year-old Paula Bohovesky in 1980. Roman Tiraspolsky – stock.adobe.com

The creeps spotted the teen as she was walking home from her part-time job in Pearl River and McCain chucked a piece of pavement at her head and then beat her.

The sick pair then dragged the girl behind an empty house and sexually assaulted her before LaBarbera stabbed her five times in the back.

Her brutalized body was found face down near a pool of blood the next morning and her jeans were around her ankles.

After about 40 years in prison, McCain was granted parole 2021 despite calls from various elected officials and the victim’s elderly mother to keep him locked up. LaBarbera was released in 2020.

A close friend of the Bohovesky family, Bob Baird, told The Post the teen’s mother, Lois, was “comforted” that McCain was back in custody Friday “and that it didn’t take a woman losing her life to get him there.”

“The two men who killed her daughter should never have seen the light of day and probably wouldn’t if New York State wasn’t so bent on closing prisons and saving expenses on aging prisoners,” Baird said.

State Assemblyman Matt Slater, who represents part of Westchester, said the fact the parole board had let a child killer out “should make every New Yorker sick.”

“The parole board continues to be an embarrassing failure that enables criminals, and in this instance, creates new victims.”

Lawler said the board’s decision to release McCain was “irresponsible and reprehensible.”

“Their negligence has now created another victim at the hands of this monster, and they need to be held accountable,” he said.

Roughly half of the current parole board members were on the panel in 2021 as appointments of then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Others have since been appointed by Cuomo’s successor Gov. Kathy Hochul — and have continued to face backlash in recent years for letting out an assortment of cop killers to the shock of victims’ families and lawmakers.

A spokesperson for the parole board said in a statement Friday that its members weigh “multiple factors” and must follow numerous guidelines and laws when deciding whether to release an inmate.

“Prior to making a final decision, the board members must follow the statutory requirements which take ‎into consideration many factors, including statements made by victims and victims’ families, if any, as well as an individual’s criminal history, institutional accomplishments, potential to successfully reintegrate into the community, and perceived risk to public safety,” the rep said.

The defense attorney for McCain, Robert Nachamie, claimed the victim in the groping case wasn’t credible and said his client has pleaded not guilty.

He also noted McCain has held a job and lived in the same home for the last couple years.

“I’m not saying what he did in the past isn’t horrific and terrible and I feel bad for the family but he did his time I believe,” Nachamie said.

“Whether it was enough I can’t say. I don’t know what I would do if I lost my daughter.”

Baird, 77, who worked for the local newspaper at the time of the 1981 slaying and has since become an advocate for the Bohovesky family, called McCain an “animal.”

“I don’t like to use the term but when you think about what was done to Paula … she was smacked on the back of the head with a piece of concrete, stabbed repeatedly, strangled, sexually molested and left to die in a pool of her own blood,” he said.

“It doesn’t get much more depraved than that.”

— Additional reporting by Vaughn Golden